[1] In 1342 Fossor criticized the sheriff of Durham for not paying his share of incomes from the pleas in the Bishop's court.
Bishop Richard de Bury issued a mandate to the sheriff ordering him to pay.
[2] In 1346 before the Battle of Neville's Cross Fossor led the Durham monks to raise the holy corporax cloth from St. Cuthbert's tomb on Maiden's Bower during a vigil.
[6] On 21 February 1371 a bond of the Vicar of Northallerton, John of Hayton, to the Prior of Durham in £1000 to pay an annual pension of 20 marks at Pentecost and Martinmas from 1371, 25 marks in 1376 and £20 each following year was written.
[8] Near his death Fossor commissioned the Neville Screen in Durham Cathedral, costing either £500 or 500 marks.